Day in the Life

Jun 13, 1859

Journal Entry

June 13, 1859 ~ Monday

13 I replanted my sugar cane in my garden this morning
I set out about 100 cabbage plants I spent the fore noon in
the garden I learn by the last mail that the Armies of France
Italy & Sardena united have began to meet the Austriain army
in Italy & Lombardy & some fighting has taking place &
Blood has been shed it will be a Bloody war Russia &
France are in alliance in the great struggle against Austria
while Fra England is strongly arming but trying to stand
Neutral they say they have an armey of 100000 men in
India 100000 in England & she has the greatest Navy in the
world, & is now offieering a premeum of £10 each for 100000
seamen in addition to their present Navy they have ordered
all the war steemers on the stocks to be immediately clompleted
& prepared for sea. Mr Cooper was in the office to day from
Calafornia to again try to sell the Musketoe Country to the Saints
this is strange as President Young told him when he was here
befor that he would not take that country as a gift & move this
people to it if [it] iwas all covered 18 inches with pure gold. I visited
my field in the afternoon I Found my wheat had been flooded

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wisth water some person had raised the gate & let the whole
stream of water run onto my field of wheat & flooded
it like a lake for 2 days & nights which damaged it much
my corn & sugar cane is up well all my crops look well
except whare it was damaged by flooding

two hundred U. S. Draggoons returned from Origon
& went into the South East part of the city & turned all
their animals into a 10 acre lot of wheat belonging
to John Vancott. he went & politely invited them to
take their Horses out & they arested him & kept him
a prisioner all night he was taken out of their hands
in the morning. Governor Cummings made his protest
against it He told Vancott to make out his Bill & send
it to Col Johnson & if he would not pay it He would
write to the department at Washington. The military
power do not regard the rights of the citizens in this
country. G. A. Smith returned from Provo at 11 oclok P.M.


Elder L Snow returned to Box Elder took Phebe with him

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48 mentions
74 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3459 mentions
Apostle, Family
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1439 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Cooper, John B.
abt. 1791-1862
8 mentions
Van Cott, John
7 Sep 1814 - 18 Feb 1883
87 mentions
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
703 mentions
Apostle, Family
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
346 mentions
Family

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O Hyde presented the busi ness of the meeting which was to go out once more & warn the Saints to sell no more grain but lay up all the food they can get to prepair for a day of famine which is at the door the Saints have been warned to do this for a long time but they have given no heed to the warning ie many of them, others have.
~ Orson Hyde
O Pratt Preached upon the second coming of Christ the Building of Zion & Jerrusalem & their final location on the Earth the Thrones of Christ & his Twelve Apostles will be in Jerrusalem while the New Jerrusalem & Zion of Enoch & the Zion of the Saints will be in Jackson County Mo. Adam dwelt in that land as the garden of Eden was there
~ Orson Pratt

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Jun 13, 1859